Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) winds in select small domains are routinely available (with good latency, i.e., within 2 or 2-1/2 hours) at this website. Coverage over the Great Lakes typically occurs within an hour of 0000 UTC and 1200 UTC on each day. The image above (direct link) shows derived SAR winds... Read More

A sequence of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Dust RGB and Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) showed the development of dense plumes of blowing dust (whose source regions were primarily in southeast Colorado and the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandles) on 15 December 2021. These dust plumes were being lofted by strong winds along and behind a cold... Read More

NOAA-20 overflew the central United States twice in the afternoon of 15 December 2021 (NOAA-20 orbits that day shown here, from this website) as a potent weather system moved through. SPC‘s Convective Outlook showed a Moderate Risk of severe weather (link); There was widespread wind damage on this day (link). How... Read More

A GOES-17 airmass RGB, above, shows a strong feature in the Gulf of Alaska. It’s common to associate the orange and purple regions within that polar feature (that is accompanied by cloud features consistent with very cold air aloft) with enhanced ozone. What products are available online to gauge the... Read More